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Re:TSMC plans to halt chip supplies to Huawei in 2 months by sudosysgen on Thursday July 16, 2020 @03:47PM (#23863090)
The question for me is twofold.

First, will isolating China from the US and it's client states actually do anything to make the CCP act in a way that will respect human rights more? I think it is pretty clear that won't be the case.

Second of all, is the entity that stands to benefit actually going to be better for human rights? In this case it pretty much is a zero-sum game. This is a bit more debatable, but I don't think that if the US won this Cold War against China the situation for human rights in the world will become any better.

Because of that, I can't get behind it, at all.

Re:TSMC plans to halt chip supplies to Huawei in 2 months by coliveira on Thursday July 16, 2020 @04:36PM (#23863547)
The answers to both questions is no. Trying to isolate China will only make the lives of Chinese people worse and extinguish any hope of democracy in the medium term. But the US is terribly afraid of losing its grip on power, so it has to be.

Second, the country that is now invading the privacy everywhere in the world (anyone forgot Snowden?) and raging wars without end in sight is the country pretending to be for democracy. This only tells me that the only greatness we still have in the West is the ability to spread propaganda. Somehow, people can be easily convinced that all this is for the greater good.

Re:TSMC plans to halt chip supplies to Huawei in 2 months by tomp on Thursday July 16, 2020 @04:23PM (#23863421)
> I don't think that if the US won this Cold War against China the situation for human rights in the world will become any better.

That's true, but you need to contrast it with the other outcome - if China wins, human rights everywhere are very likely to become much worse.

That itself is a really good reason to support the US / West.

Re:TSMC plans to halt chip supplies to Huawei in 2 months by coliveira on Thursday July 16, 2020 @04:37PM (#23863560)
We are already in pretty bad shape. I particularly don't think this new "Cold War" will have any winer, ever, other than the ones making money from it. Good luck supporting these crimes.